Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
My first foray into the Mario Superstar Baseball Category Extensions!
Not sure how seriously I'm going to grind this category but I enjoyed finding out which strategies worked best for me. I wanted to believe in Birdo but having a good bat is just too important in this mode and Bowser's is simply the best there is.
Note: the run officially ends the first frame that "999" is visible above your character, which is why the official time is 5:52.733 and not what my timer says. You aren't required to finish the match, and I had 27 more turns to play, so I decided not to. You are required to have your CPU difficulty selection in your video though- don't forget!
My first foray into the Mario Superstar Baseball Category Extensions!
Not sure how seriously I'm going to grind this category but I enjoyed finding out which strategies worked best for me. I wanted to believe in Birdo but having a good bat is just too important in this mode and Bowser's is simply the best there is.
Note: the run officially ends the first frame that "999" is visible above your character, which is why the official time is 5:52.733 and not what my timer says. You aren't required to finish the match, and I had 27 more turns to play, so I decided not to. You are required to have your CPU difficulty selection in your video though- don't forget!
![Mario Superstar Baseball - Superstar% Toadette in 5:11.100 (World Record) [1 Match!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6cTckDBo8so/mqdefault.jpg "Mario Superstar Baseball - Superstar% Toadette in 5:11.100 (World Record) [1 Match!]
Hell yes hell yes hell YES! Now this is what Im talking about!
It took me several days of effort (cumulatively) theorycrafting, testing, and practicing to make one match Toadette viable, but after learning that it was possible to set the CPU up for a third-inning bunt without endangering Toadettes shutout, MVP, and other goals, I knew I would eventually make it happen. Today, I have. It was of course made difficult by the fact that the CPU is only 20% or so likely to choose to bunt even when the requisite circumstances are met, but low odds havent stopped me before and they didnt stop me this time. :)
Im extremely proud of how it all turned out. Not literally perfect but Im not seeing too much to complain about - five minutes is very, very fast for a match that goes a full three innings. My defense in particular was swift and efficient, consisting only of one-pitch fly outs, three-pitch strikeouts, and of course the Big Play. The only truly regrettable moment was the Heart Ball that enemy-Peach threw against me-Toadette in the top of the 3rd - I might have still been able to get the squeeze bunt with better positioning, but at least the outcome was about ten seconds of time lost rather than the death of the run.
I can imagine this run being beaten someday but I dont envy whoevers going to make it happen - its definitely not going to be me, because as far as Im concerned this a Toadette run that I am comfortable with resting on indefinitely.
My second split was obviously late, because I was so focused on getting the Toadette is a Superstar! text box to pop up as quickly as I could that I forgot about pressing the split hotkey until a few seconds later. 5:11.100 is my manual retime using the Youtube frame timer available here: https://slashinfty.github.io/yt-frame-timer/ . Im confident that thats the accurate final time.
Goodness, just a little over five minutes... who would have thought? yourgeNote")
